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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Sun 16 Dec 2018 - 18:44 | |
| The end of 2018 is coming up fast. Ladies and gentlefolks, I present to you the biggest GNamer event of the year (after the meet-up (and perhaps the Secret Santa (and probably that one other event I've forgotten)))... THE ANNUAL GNAMER FORUM AWARDS VI Votes are due in by Sunday 13th January 2019 - that's a whopping four weeks! Definitely enough time for you to forget this is a thing consider your votes carefully and get them in! Comments, as ever, are greatly welcomed - even for the tagline vote. They add a bit of colour and WORDS EVERYWHERE-ness to the results. But, as always, you don't need to add comments and you don't need to vote in every category and if it says ' (x votes)' then x is a maximum and you can submit fewer. All awards are one vote unless stated otherwise. There have been a couple of alterations to the voting since last year, so please do read the below. Please also let me know what you think about the new slate! Feedback is much welcomed. If the feedback is vehement enough then there's still time for changes to happen. - Faff:
Contributor of the Year (two votes, weighted equally) - The main vote this year, taking over from Forumite. We want the people who have made not only the biggest, but also the best contributions to GNamer. Quality and quantity go hand in hand. Who has made the GNamer Forum (not Twitter, not Nintendo Online, but this messageboard here) a great place to be in 2018? Funniest Member of the Year - The old classic. Vote for the funniest fellow on the forum. Signature of the Year - The Funniest Member award's for the wit in the posts - this award is about the wit below them. Which signature left you giggling, surprised you, or just grabbed your attention and didn't let go? Post of the Year (two votes, weighted equally) - The best posts you've seen all year, best and second-best anyway. This is a good place to start: if you feel that thread's lacking one of 2018's finest, stick it up there so other people remember it too. Topic of the Year - The best thread, with the best OP and/or the best content, that you've seen all year. It could be a gaming thread, an off-topic thread, or an event thread, since those no longer have their own category. It just had to be good! Tagline of the Year (three votes, weighted equally) - The forum's most splendid subtitles. Vote for ones that made you laugh, vote for the few serious ones, vote for ones you barely understood. Here's 2018's selection in case you can't remember every one (AND WHY NOT). Nintendo Game of the Year (five votes, in order of preference) - Be it Switch, 3DS, or even Nintendo-stamped mobile (remember Pokémon Quest?): vote for your five faves, released this year. Or fewer if you didn't like five Ninty games this year, you heartless person. Nontendo Game of the Year (five votes, in order of preference) - Did cowboys make your west wild this year? Or maybe your spider senses were sent tingling? If it didn't appear on a Nintendo console, and didn't have Nintendo's sticky hands near it, then vote for it here! (Multiplats that appeared on Switch go in the category above... unless they were really bobbins on Switch.) Honourable and Dishonourable Mentions - Anything, or anyone, else you wanted to mention? They needn't be games, just mention as many things or people as you like down here and we'll let the populace know you loved/loathed them! Your GNew Year's Resolution(s) - Finally, what are you going to do in 2019 that you didn't do, or did do, in 2018? On the forum, in games, or even in the wider world? Another bit of fun for the end of the year: no points, just comments and (maybe) laughs.
Please send your votes to me, Balladeer, via an MP (or PM, if you prefer your forum terminology to make sense) by Sunday 13th January 2019. If you have any questions, do ask, but you might want to check below before asking: I might have answered them already! (I don't particular encourage you to read below otherwise, it's not funny and it's not interesting.)
- Why Vote:
'I don't like vote threads.' 'I don't feel I've posted enough this year.' 'I don't know y'all well enough.' Fair enough, chaps. But.
I poked fun at it at the start of the post, but this is the biggest forum event we do that everybody can take part in. Our Australian, or Japanese-by-location, forumites can't take part in Secret Santa or the meet-ups. This is one thing we as a community can all do together. And you must have some kind of soft spot for the community, else you wouldn't be here. It's the community that makes this forum possible.
As for not posting enough, or not knowing us well enough? If you're reading this post, you probably do. If you want a metric, have you made ten posts this year? Have you logged on in three different months of 2018? That's enough for me, you're a GNamerian. Get yer votes and comments in, we do want to see them!
One last thing: as mentioned up top, if you really don't feel up to talking about the community, can't think of a single good signature, or don't feel you've played enough Nontendo/Nintendo games, it'd be great to get your votes for the categories you think you can vote for. The vote limits are maxima too. Some votes > none votes.
- Forum Awards FAQ Buster:
Why did you get rid of award x?It was my aim, going into this, to try and cut the awards down a bit. Too many awards can make submitting votes a bit of a chore. Some of the choices are hopefully fairly self-explanatory. People don't really change their avatars enough to merit voting for the best one. There's not much fun voting for Board and Event of the Year when those are all but predetermined (Switch and meet-up respectively). Given that some awards were going to go, Jay and I agreed that these were no-brainers. Forumite of the Year is trickier to explain. We discussed it here. Basically we're a small group and it ended up with us feeling awkward, like voting for who's our best mate. So it got dinghied. Didn't you just replace it by expanding Contributor?I hope not. Contributor focusses on contributions to the forum, not on how nice a bloke the person is. So hopefully it's not a friendship competition. So what doesn't count towards Contributor then?Anything off the forum. Great tweets, great podcasts, great online gaming, being a stand-up bloke, paying for your pet's funeral: none of these should matter. Many posts, great posts, great topics, great signatures, great tagline suggestions: these do. What if, through said off-forum content, contributions on the forum were encouraged? e.g. posts linking to podcasts, YouTube videos?If it's linked to the forum and got some chat, by all means, give it a vote. Ultimately it's up to you how you define forum contributions, I'm not laying down a law! The folk 'round these parts don't take kindly to that... Can I vote for ZeroJones?If you think that Zero's contributions while he was here in 2018 outweigh the contributions of those who are still here, you absolutely can. Same goes for other fleeting forumites. Same's true for Funniest Forumite?Yup. The above three answers apply. Funny forum contributions are what we want to see acknowledged! Isn't there going to be a fair amount of overlap in those two votes then?Maybe! You can vote for the same person in both if you like. In the signature award, are we voting for the person or the signature?The signature. If you preferred somebody's signature from earlier this year (even if it carried over from 2017, I suppose), you can vote for that instead. If two similar sigs get votes, I'll probably group them together anyway. Does my Topic of the Year have to have been started in 2018?Like the signature award, we'd encourage topics that started life in 2018; but anything that's got a single post in it from this year is valid. Can I vote for a sig/post/topic/tagline that I made myself?No. What's the point of GNew Year's Resolutions and Mentions if there aren't going to be any points awarded?Fun! And quite possibly good conversation-starters. These are the cracker-presents of the GNamer Annual Awards: they're not the reason you're here, but you might get some fun out of pinging a plastic frog/resolution over the kitchen table/thread for a few minutes/posts.
- Gaming Awards FAQ Buster:
Why did you get rid of award x? What I said up top about the forum-focussed awards still applies to the gaming ones, but more so. Last year, there wasn't particular enthusiasm for the gaming categories (according to the words of Zero, who ran that vote). A couple of options were discussed, including scrapping them altogether. Shrinking them down to two is the option we landed on.
Yes, but - no separate multiplat/Nontendo-exclusive votes? Whereas Nintendo live and die, a lot of the time, on their exclusives, the BBoPs don't so much. It made more sense to us to have Spider-Man and Red Dead 2 facing off than not. On the flipside, it doesn't seem infeasible that games like Celeste and Hollow Knight could go toe-to-toe with Pokémon and Smash.
Instead, we expanded the number of points to five for each, which gives people more votes (should they want them) but also provides more focus. Some quick maths: 5 x 2 > 3 x 3! (Also, hopefully less chance of only one multiplat game getting more than one vote. More points per person = more chances for overlap... I hope!)
And if all that doesn't convince you, go and look at the hot mess that was last year's multiplat award.
Are the NES games from Switch Online eligible for the Nintendo vote? ...you know, why not. We allow the Classics ranges to be voted for, after all. I won't encourage it, but if you feel an NES game, tweaked for online or no, is better than Nintendo's other 2018 offerings you're welcome to say so here.
What about other remakes? Other ports? (Asked by Mas.) If the remake and/or port came out on the current bunch of Nintendo consoles, or indeed the current bunch of Nontendo consoles/machines (inc. PC), in 2018, then yes absolutely. If it's e.g. new to the PS4 in 2018 but came out on Steam in 2016... eh, use your judgement.
I've got this game that's technically available on Switch/3DS, but I played it on another platform, and now I don't know which category it should go into... The main answer is: if a thread for the game wouldn’t go in the Nontendo forum, don’t put the game in the Nontendo vote. The other main answer is: up to you! The following tips are to avoid splitting the vote for a game you love only.
Generally, if it was launched on Switch or 3DS in more or less the same shape, either this year or in a previous year, it's eligible for Nintendo and not eligible for Nontendo. If it's got some substantial extra content in its Nontendo shape, fair enough if you want to vote for that version in Nontendo. If the frame rate/resolution's better in Nontendo, then unless the Nintendo version is widely felt to be unplayable, you might want to put it in Nintendo. Most people around here probably won't care enough about small differences, I'd warrant.
That said, if you've only got a Nontendo machine and not a Nintendo one, and don't want to bother looking up whether every indie game you played in 2018's available on Switch, that's your call and I won't stop you! Better yet: just ask me and I'll do the research myself.
Can I vote for the same game in Nintendo and Nontendo if I think it's got enough differences? Afraid not. If it's good enough to make your Nintendo vote, it goes in your Nintendo vote only.
Looking forward to reading your votes! RESULTSFunniest Forumite of 2018Best Signature of 2018Best Thread of 2018GNew Year’s ResolutionsBest Nontendo Game of 2018Best Tagline of 2018Best Post of 2018Dishonourable MentionsBest Nintendo Game of 2018Honourable MentionsForum Contributor of 2018
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| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Sun 16 Dec 2018 - 23:01 | |
| I do think the whole I played something like The Gardens Between on PS4 but because it's on a Nintendo system I have to vote for it in the Nintendo section is utter bobbins.
Should be played on a Nintendo system goes in Nintendo, played on a PS4 goes in Nontendo. |
| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Sun 16 Dec 2018 - 23:43 | |
| Ah, I do enjoy this end of year awards! I'm looking forward to the gaming votes a bit more than last year personally - I do think the podcasts/Admintendos and what-have-yous took the wind out of the sails of those categories. Now, to get to voting!
Mas: You'd just be dividing the vote for a game that plays exactly the same on either platform. That's my two cents on the matter at least and I stand behind that reasoning.
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| | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 1:16 | |
| vote for ne or ill bottle you |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 9:06 | |
| - JayMoyles wrote:
- Ah, I do enjoy this end of year awards! I'm looking forward to the gaming votes a bit more than last year personally - I do think the podcasts/Admintendos and what-have-yous took the wind out of the sails of those categories. Now, to get to voting!
And voting threads held just afterwards... - JayMoyles wrote:
- Mas: You'd just be dividing the vote for a game that plays exactly the same on either platform. That's my two cents on the matter at least and I stand behind that reasoning.
Also: that's the way GNamer works as a whole. A theoretical thread on TGB would go into Switch, not Nontendo. Discussion would go in the Switch sub-forum whatever you played it on. Also also: there's a specific disclaimer saying that you can put your vote into either category, but you risk splitting up a vote and we advise you to put it in Nintendo. If you want to stick a protest vote in Nontendo for TGB, I'll roll me eyes but I won't not count it. - Drunkalilly wrote:
- vote for ne or ill bottle you
Well I'm convinced! (votes for ne) |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 9:10 | |
| If that's the reasoning then it may as well just be Top 10 Games regardless of system which would guarantee no split.
I wasn't planning to vote in the forum section this year and I was going to vote in the games section as voting for X game over Y person is a little different but I don't think I'll be doing that either on how the games section are being ran.
Hope it all goes well for you guys for those that do take part. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 9:23 | |
| - Re. the above:
Mas, you're clearly much more enthusiastic regarding the gaming section than most, and that's undoubtedly a good thing. I'm sorry that the shifting things around hasn't worked out for you. Unfortunately it means that your view differs from most of the voters. I'm not kidding when I say that Zero said the gaming awards last year got a lousy turnout. It's also true that the multiplat awards have historically been a bit of a mess. I know it's not what you wanted, but I'm hoping you can see that from our perspective, something needed to give; and that this was the best, or possibly least bad, option. If you don't want to vote in the gaming awards because of the changes, then fair enough, you've put your case out for all to see and that's your call. However I do hope you change your mind on the rest of the votes. Getting our most active forumites to take part in the one celebration of the community we can all take part in is more important than ever, given that we've lost people like Zero this year. Also, we've tilted things around so hopefully it's not as much 'I prefer person X over person Y'. So I do hope you'll reconsider on that. Basically: we need your votes.
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| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 10:12 | |
| I've said my bit and I'll have a think about it but just seems silly to me I could vote for 5 games I've not played on Nintendo in Nintendo and vice versa along with thinking where should I vote for The Gardens Between in Nintendo or Nontendo, where will others vote for it to not split the vote.
Now I could vote still how I personally feel, so just likes of SMASH in Nintendo and The Gardens Between in Nontendo where I played.
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| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 10:24 | |
| I can't ask for much else. Hopefully the awards descriptions and guidelines provided will avoid splitting the vote without requiring too much thought: that's why they're there!
Any thoughts (from anyone, not just Mas) on the rejigged other awards? Anything drastically missing? |
| | | Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 10:39 | |
| Everything is terrible. We had a Forum Awards last year, it's undemocratic to do it again this year. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 10:54 | |
| That's a fair criticism, I'm undermining the will of the people by asking what the will of the people is.
Instead, we've decided that funniest forumite will be decided by a panel consisting of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson, and RichardUK from GRcade. After all, no funniest forumite is better than a bad funniest forumite, unless we change our minds on that. |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 12:09 | |
| I might be wrong but I think Richard UK might be Top Hat Gaming Man/Person.
Top Hat far as I know from his wrestling persona is called Richard Parliament and is proudly British.
Richard UK I believe is called Richard Parliament and is proudly British.
It might be a amazing coincidence and might be wrong about Richard UK's surname. |
| | | OrangeRakoon Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1556 Points : 1560 Join date : 2015-05-06 Age : 32 Location : Reading, UK
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 13:16 | |
| He's not, and Parliament isn't his last name |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 15:04 | |
| Ahh I don't where I got that from, maybe he's (Richard UK's) YouTube or something. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 17 Dec 2018 - 15:05 | |
| YOU CAN'T DENY MY HEADCANON O_R. Gents, we have our first set of votes! Once again before I could even start to think about mine. Thanking you, mysterious voter! |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Tue 18 Dec 2018 - 18:53 | |
| Thinking about it and your RE part Balla does make some sense and would feel I'm letting the forum down.
I do have some questions though to do with the games awards.
1. Remakes/Remaster are those allowed eg Shadow of the Colossus, Pokémon Let's Go, Dark Souls?
2. Ports this is mainly for Nintendo but if I buy and play Firewatch could I count that even though it's almost 4 years old?
I know when I do my personal stuff on the blog / YouTube, I won't count any of the above as I do feel it's odd saying the best game of 2018 is from 2006, makes the year sound a bit shite and I know the devs aren't going to check out my little slice of the internet but I reckon they'd also feel a bit shite. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Tue 18 Dec 2018 - 20:04 | |
| Onya Mas. After all, you're the current holder of the current most prestigious GNamer Award! 1 yup, 2 yup. Ports that are new to the specific machine in 2018 and remakes are both eligible. Maybe not a 2017 PS4 game that's been ported to XB1 in 2018, but I'll leave that to y'all to decide. I'll edit the OP accordingly. Deciding not to include them on the grounds that it makes the year look a bit shite is perfectly valid too: I've definitely docked games points for being ports in other votes. |
| | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Tue 18 Dec 2018 - 23:55 | |
| I can give you some sober thoughts now I guess. You might as well have dumped contributor, it always felt like a quantity> quality award. In fact, by the same logic we ditched forumite oty, we might have ditched all single-person awards and just had posts, threads and the forum itself. Oh well, whatevs. REIGNING FORUMITE CHAMPION. FORUMITE OF ALL TIME. - Masofdas wrote:
- I've said my bit.
- Also Masofdas wrote:
- Says more bits.
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| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Wed 19 Dec 2018 - 9:19 | |
| I agree with you Drunka even being the defending champion, as in previous years I've won because of the release topics along with sheer number of posts.
Which okay is a lot of contribution which on those grounds you see why I've won, that I would have been more than happy to see that award goes as well. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Wed 19 Dec 2018 - 18:33 | |
| - Drunkalilly wrote:
- You might as well have dumped contributor, it always felt like a quantity> quality award.
- masofdas wrote:
- I agree with you Drunka even being the defending champion, as in previous years I've won because of the release topics along with sheer number of posts.
I'm glad you both said this (even though I personally think there's a place for valuing volume), because the rearranged Contributor award is designed to value quality ( on the forum) as well! Please do have a look at that if you haven't already (everyone not just you two), it is quite different to the CotY award you know and love/loathe from previous years. - Drunkalilly wrote:
- In fact, by the same logic we ditched forumite oty, we might have ditched all single-person awards and just had posts, threads and the forum itself.
This... is a bigger thing though. It's almost certainly not going to happen this year (not unless people really pull for it - anything can happen), because it's such a drastic change on top of the drastic changes we've already shoved in. That said, I would be interested to see whether other people agree, so do mention it in the general votes chat thread. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 31 Dec 2018 - 10:39 | |
| It's the last day of 2018! So you should hopefully pretty much know what you're voting for now.
We're currently still on three votes. One from me, natch; one from somebody who doesn't feel they've seen enough of the forum stuff to have an informed opinion, which is fair enough but uninformed opinions are also welcomed; and a very meaty Hogmanay roast of an offering. Cheers to the two of you! |
| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Mon 31 Dec 2018 - 16:08 | |
| I'll get my votes in tomorrow when I'll no doubt be recovering from a bit of a hangover. |
| | | Jimbob Bargain Hunter
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| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Fri 4 Jan 2019 - 20:46 | |
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| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Fri 4 Jan 2019 - 22:21 | |
| My votes have been sent away - there's no excuse to be after the king of procrastinators, James J Moyles. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: GNamer Forum Awards 2018 Sun 6 Jan 2019 - 12:06 | |
| Thanks James J. Moyles! The rest of you (Mas and OR aside):
One week remaining. It really would be great to see everyone who's logged on as far back as October voting in this.
Don't like votes? Think of it as a celebration of the community instead; or just don't vote for everything.
Don't think you know enough about the community? I've chosen October specifically: if you fit in that criterion, I reckon you've seen enough to count. Even if you don't visit everywhere on the forum, your niche knowledge matters!
Haven't been bothered to yet? That's fine, just get them in by next Sunday! Might be a good idea to ponder them beforehand though? Oh, and I'll be in a place to post up results from quite early on Monday, so don't leave them until halfway through Monday please.
Four votes so far: more greatly appreciated thanking you! |
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